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Erik Prince's Blackwater Ammunition (aka PBM) is James Fenech/gun journo Nicola Bandini. Bandini partnered w/Dmitri Streshinksy in Arsenal pistols.Sold weapons to Maduro in Venezuela. Why does Prince/PBM employees hide the location of ammo factory in Italy?unimondo.org/Notizie/Venezu… 
Gun blogger dive on the Arsenal pistol. Over promise, under deliver. Kinda like the UAE Caracal pistol pushed by Saeed Ali Al Shamsi, who helped get Prince his 2010 residency/work visa in Abu Dhabi to "do" Reflex Response which was run by Reno Alberto. thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/05/2…
Blackwater Ammo launched at IWA 2018 in Nurnberg, Germany and at SHOT 2019 in Vegas. Nice booth, good location. Not a lot of resonance in the gun media for the machined casing idea. Prince pimped books, NRA and long time pal Olly North swings by to say hi.
A branding play using Italian OEM providers with distribution through Fenech in Malta where Prince has other interests. Next up: Blackwater Guns. Not sure what army, police or enthusiasts want to carry Blackwater weapons (insert sad shooting joke here)
Last time Prince tried this, he and his employees almost went to jail when the King of Jordan and his brothers were handed Blackwater guns in 2005 at Moyock and flew off leaving BW employees to falsify records. Erik owned those guns via his solely owned BW Pro Shop. Oops.
Why Rich White Guys Don't Go To Jail: After legal acrobatics and background hysteria the story was that the CIA (who drops ships tons of weapons into places like Jordan) told Prince to give the guns to the Royal family. Just don't talk about the forgery. pilotonline.com/news/article_5…
Hinted at in this podcast with @mehdirhasan and the @theintercept: Prince is a "slippery character who has repeatedly attempted to graymail the U.S. government by..saying if you come after me, I’m going to tell the public...where the bodies are buried" theintercept.com/2019/03/14/eri…
